D-Go
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- D-Go is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Liner Team leader D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) looks dangerously powerful, and he is. He's an expert sniper, and should he lose his temper, even his teammates have a hard time keeping him in check. But beneath the fearsome strength is a mind that carefully studies the logic behind any situation. Good friends with the healer Sireen, he works hard to develop strategies and find peaceful solutions to problems. This combination of strength and wisdom has made him the de facto leader of the Earth-based Autobot Micromasters.
D-Go combines with his team to form Sixliner.
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Fiction
Micromaster
D-Go was one of many Cyberdroids who evolved into Micromasters thanks to a mysterious energy wave. Finding themselves on Earth, they blended into human society and fought against those Micromasters who had evolved into Decepticons. A New Transformer Legend Begins!!
When five of the six Turbo Team Autobots had been infected by the mind changer virus, D-Go devised a plan to allow Sireen to upload an antivirus to the entire team at once by combining with them to form Sixturbo. The strategy worked, and Sixturbo was returned to normal. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!
When mysterious green doppelgangers of the Build Team appeared and started wrecking human cities, D-Go called all the Autobots together and showed them footage of the attacks. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!? Later, D-Go and Sireen analyzed the reports on the strange Cybertronian metal plates that were unearthed at the base of a dormant volcano, and wondered if this discovery combined with the Matrix fragment within Desire would help them in their eventual goal in finding the lost Optimus Prime and his troops. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!! Though the Autobot forces were spread thin in their attempt to protect both the ruins they uncovered and the humans, D-Go and the other Autobots soon received reinforcements in the form of the Multiforce. D-Go initially hoped that the Multiforce had been sent from Cybertron to rescue his team, but learned that they had actually emerged from a dimensional rift from "another Earth." The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
The Battlestars manga and story pages
Years later, D-Go and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by Sky Garry into the ranks of the Battlestars. Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!
Operation Combination
Train Wars
Just as Cybertron seemed lost to the interdimensional incursion of the Fallen, Shouki and the ragtag band of Transformers left to defend Cybertron were greeted by D-Go, Desire, and Shouki's old comrade Suiken. The other Trainbots had arrived astride Metroplex, bringing with them the Liner Team and the Train Team! With that, on Windy's count all three teams of train 'bots combined into the Trainbot Omni-Car Joint to chain the Fallen, giving Shouki and company time to vanquish the cosmic evil by funneling Metroplex's power through Shouki's new "Raiden" cannon mode. Train Wars 2
Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Sixliner (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
- ID number: C-370
- Released in the Return of Convoy part of the original Takara Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, D-Go transforms into a D51 steam locomotive. His rear pegged hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner kibble weapon with a socket-hitch. He also has a small socket on the top of his train mode, allowing him to use the Giga-Techvolt weapon.
- He can also form the back to any of the Six-team combiners, as well as the chest to any of the "kibble-jet" types, but his nominal placement is as the back of Sixliner.
- He was only available in the complete Sixliner box set, along with this fellow Micromasters Alan, Joe, Leaf, Night, and Spark.
Micromaster
- D-Go (Micromaster Sixtrain, 2002)
- ID number: 1
- Accessories: Sixliner head, rifle
- Part of the first The Transformers: Micromaster assortment, D-Go and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002, this time sold in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on their instruction sheets visible through a small hole in the box.
- Like the rest of the Micromaster figures, D-Go's deco has been altered with the removal of all sticker detailing, with a modified deco using paint. He loses his gold shin detailing, and has a much simpler solid-gold chest (the original toy's detailed sticker obscuring the screw-hole there), but gains white and gold stripes on his train mode, plus an Autobot symbol on his cowcatcher.
Notes
- For a long time, it was thought that D-Go's name was "Diego". However, "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, Diego, featuring an "e" that D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) does not have. It was not until a connection was made between D-Go's name and alternate mode—a D51 steam locomotive—that the pun in his name was discovered: "go" is "five" in Japanese, effectively making his name "D-Five", and ergo a reference to that series of trains, which is extremely popular in Japan.
- D-Go, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Return of Convoy release.
- The original Return of Convoy Sixliner instruction booklet shows D-Go carrying the (then-unnamed) Giga-Techvolt weapon in train mode; in fact, of the three kibble-weapons, it is the only one where the text specifically calls out "it goes to this one guy". Micromaster later specifically assigned the weapon to Alan in his bio.
